From the Modern Library edition of George Rawlinsons translation of The Persian Wars by Herodotus.

Pontoon bridge persia. Temporary pontoon bridge under construction Persian Front Mesopotamia 191718. The most primitive floating bridges were wooden boats placed in rows with planks laid across them to support foot traffic horses and wheeled carts. Building roads through the Jebel Hamrin Mesopotamia 1917.

Pontoon bridge Persian Front Mesopotamia 191718 The Turks fell back on Baghdad fighting a rear guard action much of the way. The project is located in Turkey. He got together a big army from all over the Persian Empire and they crossed the Hellespont on a pontoon bridge in 480 BC.

Actually Xerxes needed to build two pontoon bridges because the first one was destroyed by a storms roiling waters. This bridge consisted of two parallel pontoon bridges each made up of 314 and 360 boats which were tied to the riverbank and T. The Hellespont is where Xerxes the fourth Great King of the Persian Empire had his engineers lash together over 300 ships to build a gigantic pontoon bridge so the massive Persian army could cross from East to West and descend on the Greeks in 480 BC.

Pontoon Bridge - 480 BC A major obstacle in the path f the Persian King Xerxes army was the Hellespont a waterway at the head of the Aegean that was nearly a mile wide at its narrowest and separated Asia Minor from Europe. The bridges were described by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus in his. Hellespont aka Dardanelles is a narrow natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the.

So it seemed in 480 BC when the Persians under Xerxes invaded Greece. The Persian army can build a pontoon bridge there 51. Fuel and ammunition dump set ablaze by retreating Turkish forces Mesopotomia 1918.

For example Athenai is adjacent to Thebai and Korinthos. According to Herodotus the bridge was made of 676 ships stationed in two parallel rows with their keels in the direction of the current. King Xerxes built pontoon bridges across the Hellespont for the Persian army.